Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-09-16
HOSPITALITY.
Guests May Not Always be Pleasant
Company, but it is Triumph to
Entertain Them.
Two Great Entertainments by Hospita
BILE Men, but Greater Entertain
ment to Coma in the Hereafter.
Gases where Guesta Became Defenders
and Where Hospitality Was Richly
Rewarded Years Afterwards.
Special TO the Gazette

4HE dAMPiONTJ CtpL' LII uG nv
DR.. T. Dewitt Talmage's text to-day
Yves from Romans. chspter Kill Y, Is;
"Given TO hospitality" and his dis
course as follows:
There is danger that the multiplication
of large and commodious hotels IL our
towns and cities and villages will
utterly cxterminate that grace which
Abraham exhibited when he entertained
the angels, and which Lot showed when
he watched for guests ct the gate OF
the city, and which Christ recognized as
a positive requisite for entering heaven,
when he declared: 81 WAS g stranger
ard We took Me in"
propose TO speak this morning OF the
trials and rewards Ct Christian hos
pitality. The first trial often
COMES IN THE WuIM
and eccentricity Of the guest himself.
There are g great many excellent people
who have pr0tuberances Ct disposition,
and sharp edges OF temperament, and IN
pliabiIity OF character, which make them
positive nuisance in Gny house where
they stay. Ga short acquaintance, they
will begin to command the household af
fairs, order the employees to unusual
service, keep unreasonable hours, use
narcotics in places offensive TO sensitive
n0strils, put their feet st unusual eleya-
lions, drop the ashes OF their Havana on
costly tapestry, open bureaus they ought
never to touch, and pry into things they
ought never 10 see, and become imper-
Yious to rCusing bells, and have
have all the pGcuiiaritie8 OF the gOr-
mandizer or the dyspeptIc, ard maze eX-
cav1tIons from poor dentistry with
unusual implements, and il thousand
ways stlllCt the household which proposes
to take care of them. Added TO all, they
stay too long. They have no idea when
their welcome is worn out, and they
would be unmoved even by the blessing
which my friend Gerritt Smith, the phil
anthrCpist, asked one morning at his
breakfast table, on the Gay when he hoped
that the long pTotracted guests would de
part, saying: "0h, Lord, bless this pro-
vision and our friends who leave Us to-
day" But, my friends, there are ale
vistiOns TO be put 90 their side Of the
scale. Perhaps they have net had the
same refining Influences about them in
early life that you have bad. Perhaps
they shave inherited eccentIicitics that
they cannot help Perhaps 1t is your
duty, by example, 20 shOw them batter
way. Perhaps they are sent to be 2 trial
for the development Of yCur patience.
Perhaps they were intended tG be an IL
lUgtration OF the opposite Of what you
ere
TRYING To INCULCATE
in the minds OF your children. Perhaps
it is TO make your home the brighter
when they are gone. When our guests
are CHEEKY, and fascinating, and elegant,
it is easy TO entertain them; but when
we find in our guests that which is an
tagonistic 70 cur taste and sentiment, il
IS positive triumph when we can obey
the words Of my text and be "giyan 10
hospitality"
Another trial il the using of this grace
s il the toll and expense OF exercising it..
In the we'll regulated household things go
smoothly, but now you have intro
duced foreign element into the ma
cdinery, and though you may stOutly de-
clare that they must take things as they
lad them, the Martha will break in. The
urgoYernable stove, The ruined desert.
The delayed marketing. The perplexities
Of caterer The difficulty CfdCiGg proper
work, and yet always being presentable-
Though you may say there shall be no
care or anxiety, there will be care and
there viii be anxiety. In 1894 the cap
tain general provided g very grand enter
tsinment, and among other things he had
fountain in his garden fountain Of
strong drink. In it were four hogsheeds
Of brandy, eight hOgsheads of water,
twenty-five thousand lemons, thirteen
hundredweight Of Lisbon sugar, five
/ do Of INV frnT
toasted biscuits, and boat built on pur
pose was placed in the fountain, and q
boy rowed around it, and filled the cups
Of the people VINO came there to be sup
Piled. Well, you ssy, that was Iuxur-
ious entertainment, and Of couse the mar
had 40 anxiety; but | have 10 tell you
that though you mad, or propose, an en-
teTtainment like that, you have anxiety
In that very thing comes the Divine re-
ward. We are born to serve; and wber
we serve others, We serve God. The husi
on
THAT WoMAN's CHEEK
as she bends over The hot stove, is as 81
cred IN Gods sight as the fash on the
cheek OF one VINO, on hot day, preache!
the gospel. We may serve God wit
plate and cutlery and brooms as Ger
tainlY as we can serve Him with psalm
book and liturgy. Margaret, Queen O.
Norway cnd Sweden and Denmark, haC
cup Of ten lips, On which was recorded
the names Of the guests Who had druul
from this royal cup. And every Christian
woman has q royal cup, on which are
written all the names Of those who hav,
ever been entertained by her II Christian
style-nsmes not cut by human tnge-
nuity, but written by the hand Of Di
vine Jesus. But, my friends, you sre no
to toll unnecessarily. Though the fart
be plain, cheerful presidency OF the table
and cleanliness OF appointments Will b'
good enough for anybody that ever comes
to your house. John Howard WAS IL
vited to the house OF a nobleman
He said: 81 will come OF
one condition, snd that il
that you have nothing but potatoes on til
table" The r2qulsition was complete
with. Cyrus, King OF Persia, under tht
same circumstances, prescribed that OF
the table there must be nothing bu
bread. OF course, these were extremes
! but they are illustrations CT the fact ths
more depends upon the banquetters tina!
upon the banquet. l want to lift this idet
Of Christian entertainment out OF posi-
tive bondage into s glorious inducement
Every effort you put forth, and every dol
lar you give to the entalnment Of trieE,
or foe, you give directly to Christ. Sup
pose it were announced that the Lore
Jesus Christ would come 70 this place til
week, what woman in this house Toul'